{"product_id":"southern-rivers-restoring-americas-freshwater-biodiversity-hardback-9780817321826","title":"Southern Rivers; Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity (Hardback) 9780817321826","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSouthern Rivers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRestoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eR. Scot Duncan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817321826\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e508 pages, 55 colour figures, 7 b\u0026amp;w figures, 5 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 17.8 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Duncan pulls us in to his fold with an engaging first-person writing style, not an easy task with such a deep trove of scientific, political, cultural, and historical information.\"—James B. McClintock is the Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is author of\u003ci\u003e A Naturalist Goes Fishing: Casting in Fragile Waters from the Gulf of Mexico to New Zealand’s South Island\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Diversity of Invertebrates: Gulf of Mexico edition\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"R. Scot Duncan’s \u003ci\u003eCreeks to Coast: Restoring the Rivers at the Heart of America’s Freshwater Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent and original synthesis of the Southeast’s water marvels, problems, threats, and solutions. Duncan provides a personalized meta-meditation on the region’s rivers and coastlines in a rich context anchored in biological diversity and human history.\"—Chris Manganiello is water policy director for Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. He is author of \u003ci\u003eSouthern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the American Society for Environmental History’s Rachel Carson Prize\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eExplores the Southeast’s imperiled river systems and solutions for preserving them in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and extinction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e, by award-winning nature writer and biologist R. Scot Duncan, is a thoroughly crafted exploration of the perilous state of the Southeast’s rivers and the urgent need to safeguard their vitality. The region’s rivers are the epicenter of North American freshwater biodiversity and are the top global hotspot for important aquatic animals including mussels, turtles, snails, crayfish, and fish, many of which have made important contributions to southern life and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Centuries of commercial development have impaired the region’s river systems, sacrificing biodiversity and compromising the rivers’ ability to provide resources essential to human life: drinking water, waste disposal, irrigation, navigation, recreation, power production, and more. Now, increased heat and drought caused by climate change are lowering water levels. As such threats increase, it may seem necessary to choose between nature conservation and human needs, but Duncan persuasively demonstrates that this is a false choice. Conservation enhances human life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the same engaging voice of an expert friend that won over thousands of readers of his earlier book, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Wonder: Alabama’s Surprising Biodiversity\u003c\/i\u003e, Duncan explains the task of managing southeastern rivers and how river water quality affects the daily lives of the millions who hold these historic waterways dear. He shows how managing rivers wisely can meet the needs of biodiversity and humanity both. With Americans increasingly anxious about the onset of climate change and the accelerating extinction crisis, Southern Rivers illuminates actionable solutions.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570157547800,"sku":"9780817321826","price":65.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/southern-rivers-restoring-americas-freshwater-biodiversity-hardback-9780817321826","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}